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NASAFires in Southeast Australia (2/6/2009)

A crippling heat wave and strong winds in southeastern Australia contributed to an outbreak of forest and grassland fires in Victoria in late January 2009. By January 30, about 5,500 hectares had burned and at least 10 homes had been destroyed, reported the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The homes were located in a small community near the town of Boolara. Nearly surrounded by wildfire, the town had also run out of water and lost power, said ABC News. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite was captured on January 30. A large plume of smoke spreads southward from a fire (outlined in red) that appears to be burning in a small area of forest west of Churchill (a larger town near Boolara) in Victoria's Gippsland region. The forest is dark green in contrast to the surrounding grass or cropland. The fire, says ABC News, started as two blazes in plantation forests in the Strzelecki Ranges. The large version of the scene shows a wider area that includes several other fires. Image credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Text credit: Rebecca Lindsey, NASA's Earth Observatory


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Mediatype: image
Creator: NASA
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/world/australiafire_20090206.html
Date: 2/6/2009
Year: 2009
Rights: Public Domain
What: Aqua
What: Earth
Where: Australia
Where: Victoria
Where: Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Identifier: 312360main_seaustralia_2009030_lrg_full
Addeddate: 2009-08-20 00:28:25
Publicdate: 2009-08-20 00:45:28
Keywords: Fires in Southeast Australia; What -- Aqua; What -- Earth; Where -- Australia; Where -- Victoria; Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

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